Quotes About Chance

Not every pitch I swing at is going over the fence, but you're going to miss every shot you don't take.

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

There's certain people who have contacted me on Twitter, not realizing I am a human being who reads things sent to me directly. They've said, 'I can't stand her. I never watch more than a minute of her before switching off.' It's a bit like 'give me a chance!'

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Maybe it should just make you feel lucky. Yeah, you were really lucky you didn't die after the accident. But you were a lot luckier to be born in the first place. So if you're here for a reason, maybe we all are.

My grandfather used to say that everyone alive has already beaten the craziest odds, just being born. Like one in a trillion. Your parents could have had a million different kids, but they had you. And before that could happen, your parents had to be born themselves, and their parents had to be born.

You got to be lucky. Like, for example, one time in the seventh game of a playoff, somebody took a shot -- I think it was Nelson or Ramsey or Sam -- and it hit the backboard, hit the rim, rolled around, went in, and made me a hell of a coach. You know what I mean?

Anyone can be amazing, Clay, if you give them a chance.

Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.

Impose ta chance, serre ton bonheur et va vers ton risque. À te regarder, ils s'habitueront.

What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it had no cause, it would be a contradiction in terms.

L'amour n'est pas une affaire personnelle. C'est un désastre, une impudicité, une détresse, une bonté. Aimer c'est effrayant, mais c'est notre seule chance. Notre dernière, je veux dire.

Maybe there are stories, even, like solitaire or canasta; they are shuffled and dealt, then they do or they do not come out. Or the deck falls on the floor. Or a piece of country music, a quartet, a parade, the flag—all the things one ought by now to be too old for—touch, whatever it is.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Every day is an opportunity for a new life. Every day you stand at the tipping point of your life. And on any one day you can change the future – through the way that you feel.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice." (William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925)

Sometimes sadness teaches lessons that lead to more sadness, but sometimes it can lead to changed behavior. Sometimes happiness cannot figure out how to give itself to others. Sometimes joy can only be lived, a lucky chance that one takes, a risk that says damn the consequences.

It is as if we are trapped in a never-ending game, our lives hinging on the roll of a dice or the turn of a card.

One makes their own luck, good or ill... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration.